Quotes by American Authors - Page 628

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.
Fannie Flagg
Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.
Ann Douglas
People who make snide comments to authors like "anyone can write a book" or "well, you did it, so obviously I can/it can't be that hard" or poke at a book because it's "romance" or "genre fiction" and act like that somehow makes it substandard because they don't read it... well, ok, go ahead. Write a bestseller. Don't forget to go through the correct edit process. We'll wait.
Michelle M. Pillow
I don’t need the facts. I’m a Pisces.
Phil Volatile
I am an explorer,' she whispered, 'setting courageously off into the wild unknown.' It was not a daydream she'd ever had before, but she felt the familiar comfort of her imagination wrapping around her. She was an archeologist, a scientist, a treasure hunter. She was a master of land and sea. 'My life is an adventure.' she said, growing confident as she opened her eyes again. 'I will not be shackled to this satellite anymore.'Thorne tilted his head to one side. He waited for three heartbeats before sliding one hand down into hers. 'I have no idea what you're talking about,' he said. 'But we'll go with it.
Marissa Meyer
Do you think the wren ever dreams of a better house?
Mary Oliver
I don’t know449that much about the Bible, other than it waswritten thousands of years ago, which dilutesits relevance. However, I know its faithfulfollowers tend to cherry-pick verses to suittheir needs, the same way they cherry-pickwords or scenes from other books to labelobscene.
Ellen Hopkins
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
Gore Vidal
In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever.
Karen McQuestion
I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?
J.D. Salinger
You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?
Stephen King
Nora had been training herself not to think too much about her kids. Not because she wanted to forget them - not at all - but because she wanted to remember them more accurately. For the same reason, she tried not to look too often at old photographs or videos...After a while, these scraps hardened into a kind of official narrative that crowded out thousands of equally valid memories, shunting the losers to some cluttered basement storage area in her brain.
Tom Perrotta
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one or the other, but it cannot--despite the pretensions and protestations of psichiatrists--be both.
Thomas Szasz
Any coward can be a peacekeeper! In fact, that comes to one naturally. But they are blessed, the peacemakers...and all those who know the difference.
Criss Jami
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
T.L. Rese
Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun
Saul Williams
Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.
Janny Wurts
Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.
John Green
Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.
Alice Hoffman
I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.
Myles Horton
Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.
Erich Fromm
Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?
Natalie Angier
Life can get tough, but it's never impossible with a good attitude to your latitude.
Mary-Ellen Peters
It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.
Nicholas Sparks
Good poetry reveals the beauty of joy and tragedy.
Debasish Mridha
Let a clear understanding of your identity In Christ shed light on all the ways you can live out your purpose.
Elizabeth George
In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid.
Madeleine L'Engle
I was hoping to find a way out of here and instead found you.
Nicki Elson
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?
Kristen Callihan
Seize the day, then let it go.
Marty Rubin
Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.
Joelle Charbonneau
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
Kristin Hannah
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Thomas B. Brooks
I'd rather change my dreams than live knowing four innocent men were in prison or hanged for a crime they didn't commit.
Naomi Rawlings
Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration—poetry, novels, music, dancing—if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.
Ben Fountain
I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.
Neil Abramson
There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing in the same way, wondering about other paths and possibilities, believing that this is as good as it gets while discontent gnaws away at your soul.
Rob Bell
This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.
Kat Howard
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
John Steinbeck
...cultural barriers can be overcome relatively swiftly where there is the political will to do so.
Sheryl WuDunn
It's the way some men say, 'I'm not the problem' or that they shifted the conversation from actual corpses and victims as well as perpetrators to protecting the comfort level of bystander males. An exasperated woman remarked to me, 'What do they want--a cookie for not hitting, raping, or threatening women?
Rebecca Solnit
Borges's extreme architecture attempts to visualize the universe by assigning to every object real and unreal, now and yet to come, a code or sign, a corresponding figure within the Library. It seeks to render totality visible, to effect a total visibility and visuality. The Library of Babel is a view of the universe inside and out, an X-ray of the universe and universal X-ray, seen from within and without. It is a representation of everywhere: a perfect duplication of the universe. And of you: universal. An endless and eternal cinema, an imaginary archive that extends into the universe until it is indistinguishable from it, until you are indistinguishable from the universe.
Akira Mizuta Lippit
You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?" "Liz," I whispered back, "they're not unicorns." "No," Bex said flatly, "they're boys. And they're...good.
Ally Carter
I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like Angelo and Don Frederico. I had been a witness to both murder and betrayal and had my appetite whetted for acts of revenge.I just didn't have the stomach for any of it.I didn't want my life to be a lonely and sinister on, where even the closest of friends could overnight turn into an enemy who needed to be eliminated. If I went the way Angelo had paved, I would earn millions, but would never be allowed to taste the happiness and enjoyment such wealth often brings. I would rule over a dark world, a place where treachery and deceit would be at my side and never know the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. p368.
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?
Anne Rice
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.
Dorothy Parker
The Fair Folk don't give back what they take.
Cassandra Clare
As I turned my head and looked out the window, I saw that everything around me was glowing from within. The sunlight on the trees, the swaying of the leaves in the wind, the slight rattle of the panes of glass in the old window frame, were too beautiful for words. I was enthralled at how miraculous everything was. Absolutely everything was beautiful. . . .I saw clearly that everyone is made of light—that we are like forms of light—but that a crust has formed over it. The crust is black and rubbery like tar and has obscured the inner light that is everyone’s real, inner self. Some blotches of tar are very thick; other areas are thinner and more transparent. Those who have worked on themselves for longer have less tar and they radiate more of their inner light. Because of their personal history, others are covered with more tar and need a great deal of work to get free of it. . .If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.
Don Richard Riso
There is no beauty like a face with a joyful smile.
Debasish Mridha
The secret to consciously dating is letting your heart be your guide.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Peter and Jessie were like Romeo and Juliet. Have you ever seen that old movie? Starring Leonardo Dicaprio?
Adele Griffin
Our freedom of mobility has helped keep this nation free. We are eagles, not herds of cattle. Eagles are much harder to corral with fences.
Tom King
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
Steven Wright
Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.
Steven Wright
Intelligence in a spouse is a timeless quality.
Kilroy J. Oldster
We all came to watch her die.
Kenya Wright
Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ..."(Rapunzel glares)"Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.
Shannon Hale
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
Alice Cooper
You see?" The Father whispered as the boy passed without meeting their eyes. "You shouldn't feel ashamed of your problem. Your life experiences oftentimes is the same as someone else's.
Teresa Lo